Jakob Hensing

Jakob Hensing is a graduate student at the University of Oxford, earning an MPhil in international relations. His interests include institution-building, democratization and the governance of transitions (with a special focus on the Middle East) as well as international organizations.

Jakob worked as a researcher at GPPi from May to September 2011. Prior to that he was a volunteer at the German Academic Exchange Service Information Center Damascus, in the framework of the Federal Foreign Office's Kulturweit program. Jakob's work experience also includes internships at GPPi in the summer of 2010 and at the German foreign office's department for civilian crisis prevention in 2009. During his undergraduate studies, he was a research assistant for a project on the dynamics, causes and consequences of post-industrial value change at Jacobs University Bremen.

Jakob holds a BA in integrated social sciences (politics, sociology, economics and mass communication) from Jacobs University Bremen and spent a semester at Sciences Po Paris, where he focused on International Relations. Jakob receives a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

Languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Arabic